Southern East Cree morphological analyser

INTRODUCTION TO MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSER OF Southern East Cree LANGUAGE.

This is copied from Plains Cree

Definitions for Multichar_Symbols

Analysis symbols

The morphological analyses of wordforms of Plains Cree are presented in this system in terms of following symbols. (It is highly suggested to follow existing standards when adding new tags).

POS

• +N
• +V

• +A

• +Adv
• +CC
• +CS
• +Interj
• +Pron
• +Num

• +Symbol = independent symbols in the text stream, like £, €, ©

• +Loc Locative

• +Dim Diminutive

• +Ipc Indeclinable Particle

• +Dem Demonstrative
• +Prox Demonstrative Proximate
• +Med Demonstrative Medial
• +Dist Demonstrative Distal

Verbal MSP

• +Prs

• +Fut

• +Prt
• +Prf
• +Cnj
• +Int This tag is for the Future Intentional

• +Def This tag is for the Future Definite

• +Ind Indicative, aka Independent
• +Imp Imperative, consider deleting +Imp tag
• +Del Delayed imperative
• +Imm Immediate imperative, consider deleting +Imp tag
• +Sbj Subjunctive, aka Conjunct mode, ê-

• +Cond TODO: Should Future Conditional be tagget Fut only? Conor: we will split the Future tags

• +1Sg first singular
• +2Sg etc
• +3Sg
• +4Sg 3o is obviative (Wolvengrey 3’, cf. W diss. p. xi.)

• +5Sg 5Sg is further obviative person (Wolvengrey 3’’ cf. p. xi.)

• +1Pl 1Pl is exclusive plural (I, them, not you)
• +2Pl
• +3Pl
• +4Pl

• +12Pl 12Pl is inclusive plural (I, you, …)

• +1SgO objective conjugation
• +2SgO
• +3SgO
• +SgO
• +4SgO obviative with objective conjugation
• +1PlO
• +P2lO
• +3PlO
• +PlO

• +4PlO

• +Inf infinitive (infinite?)
• +Pos postitive
• +Neg negative
• +ConNeg accompanying negative form

Nominal MSP

• +Sg singular

• +Pl plural

• +Px1Sg person prefixes for nouns
• +Px2Sg
• +Px3Sg
• +Px4Sg
• +Px1Pl obviative
• +Px12Pl inclusive
• +Px2Pl
• +Px3Pl
• +Px4Pl

• +Dim/Der

• +IA intransitive with animate subject,
• +II intransitive with inanimate subject,
• +TA transitive with animate object, and

• +TI transitive with inanimate object.

• +AN animate noun

• +IN inanimate noun

• +Incl me too, etc.
• +Qst yes-no question particle ci

Auxiliary symbols

These symbols either shape or govern the morphophonological structure

• %> suffix border

• +WAK tag to keep track of -wak plurals

• %^LOC Locative
• w2 mow:mov2
• t2 Prefix in possessives
• h2 Prefix in possessives

• i2 Possessive element

• ^%EGLOT glottal stop after e, for eh- in conjunctive mood
• ^%EA ê to â in 1, 2 person of ê-stems

Usage tags

These tags distinguish different special-purpose analysers and generators from each other. Thus, for examples, we have normative and descriptive analysers, and generators for different purposes.

• +Err/Orth tag for substandard forms
• +Use/NG not-generate, for ped generation isme-ped.fst

Flagdiacritics

These are documented in Chapter 8 of Beesley/Karttunen, p. 456 zB.

We have manually optimised the structure of our lexicon using following flag diacritics to restrict morhpological combinatorics - only allow compounds with verbs if the verb is further derived into a noun again: | @P.NeedNoun.ON@ | (Dis)allow compounds with verbs unless nominalised | @D.NeedNoun.ON@ | (Dis)allow compounds with verbs unless nominalised | @C.NeedNoun@ | (Dis)allow compounds with verbs unless nominalised

For languages that allow compounding, the following flag diacritics are needed to control position-based compounding restrictions for nominals. Their use is handled automatically if combined with +CmpN/xxx tags. If not used, they will do no harm. | @P.CmpFrst.FALSE@ | Require that words tagged as such only appear first | @D.CmpPref.TRUE@ | Block such words from entering ENDLEX | @P.CmpPref.FALSE@ | Block these words from making further compounds | @D.CmpLast.TRUE@ | Block such words from entering R | @D.CmpNone.TRUE@ | Combines with the next tag to prohibit compounding | @U.CmpNone.FALSE@ | Combines with the prev tag to prohibit compounding | @P.CmpOnly.TRUE@ | Sets a flag to indicate that the word has passed R | @D.CmpOnly.FALSE@ | Disallow words coming directly from root.

Use the following flag diacritics to control downcasing of derived proper nouns (e.g. Finnish Pariisi -> pariisilainen). See e.g. North Sámi for how to use these flags. There exists a ready-made regex that will do the actual down-casing given the proper use of these flags. | @U.Cap.Obl@ | Allowing downcasing of derived names: deatnulasj. | @U.Cap.Opt@ | Allowing downcasing of derived names: deatnulasj.

For indicative, there are prefixes, so here we need one flag for each person-number combination. Note that for the inverse objective conjugation, the flag refers to the prefix, not to the subject. So indsg1 refers to either subject = 1Sg or object = 1Sg. The 3-3 forms are prefixless.

The conjunctive always has the ê- prefix, and future conditional never has a prefix.

• @U.verb.FutCon@ Future Conditional

• @U.mood.cnj@ Conjunctive (Conjunct)
• @U.verb.fut@ Future Conditional

Prefixes with a certain phonological content:

• @U.perspref.NULL@ test
• @U.perspref.NI@ test

• @U.perspref.KI@ test

• @U.verb.1sgindep@
• @U.verb.2sgindep@
• @U.verb.3osgindep@
• @U.verb.1plindep@
• @U.verb.12plindep@
• @U.verb.2plindep@

• @U.verb.3plindep@

• @U.noun.1sg@
• @U.noun.2sg@
• @U.noun.3sg@
• @U.noun.3isg@
• @U.noun.3osg@
• @U.noun.1pl@
• @U.noun.12pl@
• @U.noun.2pl@
• @U.noun.3pl@

• @U.noun.3ipl@

• @U.noun.abs@
• @U.noun.dep@

LEXICON Root is where it all starts

• NounPrefixes ;
• VerbPrefixes ;
• Pronoun ;
• Punctuation ;
• Symbols ;
• Particles ;
• Numerals ;

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This (part of) documentation was generated from src/fst/morphology/root.lexc